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Title: Basic Chess Endings (McKay Chess Library) by Reuben Fine, Pat Benko ISBN: 0-8129-3493-8 Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a classic masterwork on chess endings
Comment: This is a great but also a difficult book. Because it deals with a very complex subject, moreover is not an approachable text for chess newbies, therefore I should not award it more than four stars-- it's not for all!
Yet this great marvel ought to be on the book shelf of any chess master! For having so many hundreds of pages of clear (and dry) examples in this book ; this has stood the test of time. Now it is revised, in-print and in the newer algebraic notation format. The couple of dozen errors which were unknowable to anyone before computer analysis of endgames was available have been ammended by Grandmaster Pal Benko.
Honestly I can think of easier endgame books, like Auerbach's 5 volume set (now available on a cd-rom by Convekta-dot-com a russian publishing house) or certainly the are simpler rook ending books such as Emm's work and simpler pawn-ending books like Fishbein's work. but Reuben Fine-- the greatest US contender for the world chess championship before RJ Fischer--the man Botvinnik (and the soviet system of chess) most worried about before he gave up chess for medicine-- knew his stuff better than the rest.
Don't ever try to read this kind of book straight on. Look at your own chess games. Look at the type of endings which you are playing right now. Then study those ending-types in Fine's taxonomy of endings via the book index. This method will make you fearless of the ending. You will more willing to play strategic chess with complex endings instead of rock'em sock'em blitz. You will enjoy longer time-controls. This kind of book can change a young man's chess game alot. But you have to put the work into this book to get that. So it's not for all players.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best single reference work around
Comment: First let me state that I was NOT planning to write a review until I read some of the other reviews. (Some of them are very misleading).
This book is a fantastic reference book covering virtually any major ending situation that you would likely come accross in actual play. It is NOT a textbook - although it could be used to learn basic endings, there are many better books to fill this gap.
This book is probably most useful (as a reference work) for more advanced players (say 1500 - 1600 USCF & up) who have likely already studied other endgame manuals.
This book would probably also be useful for a post-mortem (analyzing a game after the fact) to determine where a particular player went astray.
It is well organized, good diagrams, good binding, etc. It has also been converted to algebraic notation (which was a drawback to the older editions).
Some of the earier reviews were most likely referring to the older editions of the book.
Hey, for 25 bucks you would be hard pressed to find anything better!
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing effort
Comment: I can't give this book anything other than 5 stars. This is a monumental effort that remained the serious chess players Endgame Bible for years.
Now, should new players use this book as a training manual? No. There are far better books to teach you the endgame. This is a REFERENCE work. A reference work done before huge computer databases and tablebases. There is a revision coming with algebraic notation and corrections done by computers etc. Regardless, the book will never be as useful as it once was. I'm compelled however to give the credit that is due Fine. It's quite possibly the most ambitious chess book ever written.
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Title: The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine ISBN: 0812917561 Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: My System: 21st Century Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch, Lou Hays ISBN: 1880673851 Publisher: Hays Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Middle Game in Chess (McKay Chess Library) by Reuben Fine, Burt Hochberg ISBN: 0812934849 Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic ISBN: 1857444000 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2 by Garry Kasparov ISBN: 185744342X Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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